Apparatus for cleaning sausage-skins.



H. C. ZIPRICK.

APPARATUS FOR CLEANING SAUSAGE SKINS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17. 1915.

1,155,393. Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

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APPARATUS FOR CLEANING SAUSAGE SKINS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB, I7. I915.

1,155,393. Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

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Herman CZz nck q vflmamo UNITED STATES PATEN HERMAN C. ZIPRIGK, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

APPARATUS FOR CLEANING SAUSAGE-SKINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patent-ed Oct. 5, 1915.

Application filed February 17, 1915. Serial No. 8,897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownfthat I HERMAN O. ZIrRroK,

a citizen of the United States, residing at.

Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of lVashington, have invented certain off the fat matter with knives in such a way as not to impair the integrity of the casing v itself.

The device of this invention consists in applying pressure to express or press out this fatty matter in such a manner as to permit the same tobe removed by devices op erating in closexproximity to the casing but in such spaced relation thereto as not to in anyway or under any condition actually engage the casing.

The device of my invention does not in any way relate to the several methods by which the casing may be treated to loosen the fatty matter or soften the same prior to treatment of the casing in the machine, but my invention does relate not only to the ma chine but to the method of removing such fatty matter from the casing after it has been previously treated to soften such matter.

Qther objects and features ofthe invention will be more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings and will be more particularly pointed out in and by the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of a machine embodying one form of my invention, Fig. 2 is a View in elevation looking from the left of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation looking from the right of Fig.l2. Fig. 4c is a detail detached perspective view of one of the pressure combs for toothed members employed in the device of my invention. V

Like characters a of reference designate similar parts throughout the diiferent figures of the drawings.

As illustrated, the machine of my invention is mounted upon a base'l having supporting legs 2. Bearings 3 and A are mounted upon thebase 1 at one side thereof, and bearings 5 and 6 are mountedon said base at the opposite side thereof, in which bearings are respectively journaled shafts 7 and 8.

An idler shaft 9 is journaled in bearings 10 and 11 and carries an idler pulley l2.

Pulleys 13 and 14 are mounted upon shafts 7 and 8, respectively, and a belt 15 is trained over said pulleys as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Fly wheels 16 and 17 are mounted upon the right hand ends of said shafts 7 and 8 as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

Now the bearings 5 and 6 are of the inverted U-shaped type having horizontal portions 18 and 19 and depending bearing portlons 20 and 21. The shafts 7 and 8 extend through and are journaled in the depending bearings 20 and 21, for a purpose which will presently appear.

Shafts 7 and 8 each carry a set of fat re 'movers and each set comprises a series of disks 22 and 23, respectively, which are shown as having toothed or serrated peripheries. Each set of disks is first threaded or sleeved on to its respective shaft and there is interposed between each disk a spacing collar 24 for maintaining the disks in spaced relation. Clamping nuts 25 not only firmly hold the disks in fixed locked frictional relation but also serves to hold the disks locked against independent rotation with respect to their res ective shafts. If desired, guards 26 and 2 may be provided to prevent injury to the operator should he get tooclose tothe disks while the same are in operation. Between the two sets of disks is mounted coacting fat expressors which are shown in the form of toothed or comb like members 28 and 29. Each fat expressor or comb is provided with a pair of arms 30 and 31, respectively, the arms of comb 28 being slidablethrough the horizontal portion 18 of bearing 5 and the arms 31 being slidable in horizontal portion 19 of the bearing 6. Locking screws 32 and 33 serve to look the combs in adjusted position in the desired proximity with respect to each other. As will be seen more particularly by reference to Fig. 2, the combs are curved at 34: and 35, or in other words theyconverge toward each other, and at 36 and 37 said combs diverge so as to provide an open way upwardly through which the casing may be drawn from below the combs upwardly between the latter and over a roller 38 suitably mounted in bearings 1 O 39 on the horizontal portion '19 of bearing 6.

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A guard 11 may be provided to hold the casing against movement to the right of Fig. 1 to a too great extent.

Now the spaces or interstices #12, between the comb teeth 43, are so arranged that they will register with the disks of their-respective sets. In other Iwords, the disks will project into these spaces between the comb teeth throughout a portion of the depth pressed and Will be' flatten'ed out in the formof a ribbon, for instance. This compression to which the casing is subjected will cause the fatty matter to exude or proj ect between the teeth of the comb and into the spaces 42 in such a manner that the rapidly" revolving disks will engage the loosened or expressed fatty matter and remove it from between the combs. The speed with which the disks are rotated will be such that the fatty matter engaged thereby will be centrifically thrown off and may if desired be caught by any suitable receptacle.

Now the process of my invention consists in manually orotherwise drawing a sausage casing or like intestinal strip between compressors, to express out the extraneous and fatty matter and loosen the same, such mat ter being engaged and thrown off, after being loosened, without injuring the casing.

It is believed that the device of my invention will be fully understood from the foregoing description and while I have herein shown and described one specific form of my invention, I do not 'wishfto be limited thereto except for'such limitations as the claims may import. a s

I claim: 7 7 1. A. machine for cleaning sausage casin and the like comprising in combination, coa'cting pressure combs between which the casing'is adapted to. be manually or otherwise advanced to express and loosen extraneous matter thereon, and operating ,removers projecting into the comb spaces for engaging and removing such expressed inatter, substantially .as described.

2. A machine for cleaning sausage casings :and the like comprising in combination, co

acting-pressure members between which the casing is adapted to be manually or otherwiseadvanced to express and loosen extraneous matter thereon, said pressnreinenrbers having openings for projection theremto of such expressed matter, and means substantially as described.

projecting into such openings for removing otherwise advanced to express and loosen extraneous matter therefrom, meanssfor adjusting such members toward and from each other in accordance'with the pressure to be exerted upon thecasing, said members having openings for discharge'of such express matter thereinto, and'rotary means projecting into said openings (for engaging and throwing off such expressed matter, substan 'tially as described. I

4. A. machine for cleaning sausage casings and the like comprising in combination, apair ofcomb pressure members shaped to converge from their ends toward their central portions and the teeth of which e x-' trend in the path of the casing drawn there between to a point slightly beyond the point of greatest convergence, means for adjusting said combs toward and from each'other to vary the pressure to be exerted on the casing, and rotating removers projecting into the comb spacesjat the point. of. greatest convergence but not into the space between said combs, substantially as described.

5. A machine for cleaning sausage cas ing's and. the like comprising in combination, a pair of pressure comb members shaped to converge from their ends toward their central portions and the teeth of which extend in the path of the casing to be drawn therebctween to a pointslightly beyond the point of greatest convergence, means for adjusting said combs toward or from each. other to vary thepressure to be 'exerted'on the interposed casin and rotating disks one projecting into each comb space and prowided with peripheral teeth for removing the matter expressed into such comb spaces,

6. A machine for cleaning-sausage casings and the llke comprismg in comblnation, sets of'rotating disks arrangedin opposed relation with the adjacentperipheries of said sets spaced apart from each other, and pressure combs disposed between said sets with the teeth of said combs overlapping 1 the disks of said sets, the adjacent pressure nER ANjo, amma,

Witnesses:

H. E. SMITH EDNA 'Bnortns.

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